Category Archives: Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD — A 21-year-old man who was fatally shot by a security guard at a Hollywood Walgreens store was not shoplifting, but was targeted because he was black and gay, an attorney for the man’s family said Dec. 11. Jonathan Hart, 21, who was homeless and was also known as Sky Young, was fatally shot…

LOS ANGELES — Activists who helped save a group of ficus trees in Hollywood from destruction praised the city’s move Dec. 7 to halt their removal, while also pointing to a recent report from a nonprofit that is critical of Los Angeles’ urban forestry management as proof that more resources are needed for tree protection.…

LOS ANGELES — Stan Lee, the co-founder of Marvel Comics and the man behind Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Black Panther, died Nov. 12 after being rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from his Hollywood Hills home. He was 95. Paramedics where dispatched at 8:34 a.m. to a Hollywood Hills…